They just opened The Nash casino at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH. This is a mall that opened in the 1980s. It is right on the MA border. In fact the parking lots actually extend over the line into MA. The was built to take advantage of the fact that NH does not have a sales tax. Where as MA does.
The Nash casino now occupies the store area that was once Sears. It is two floors and probably over 100K sq feet.
This is the THIRD casino to open in Nashua in the last couple years. They changed the law to allow casinos IF they donate a percentage of their profits to charity.
This is to gain casino market share from the people of NH/MA instead of going to the Encore that opened on the north side of Boston a couple years back. Plus the MGM in Springfield. MA. Plus Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods in eastern CT. Plus NH has online sports betting as of a couple years now.
This is one of the main reasons why Atlantic City and Las Vegas are in decline. There is now a casino within 1-2 hours of almost ever major metro area in the USA. So, unless you are going to one of these Resort Casinos for other reasons(like seeing a concert/show or golf or sun/weather) there is no reason to go there anymore.
The other big lie was the TAX benefit that they all promoted to these state governments. The revenue from gaming/gambling at the MGM in Springfield, MA and The Encore just outside of Boston is not what it was touted.
This is similar to the tax benefit from legalizing marijuana. The state of CO is not seeing the tax revenue at nearly the rates that they expected. That is because there is still illegal weed that can be bought for much less.
“MGM in Springfield, MA”
I had high hopes for that place—it is the closest casino to northwest CT.
I visited once and thought it was awful. I even wrote MGM a long letter explaining exactly what they had done wrong.
Location: ghetto adjacent
Parking Lot: dangerous
Grounds: Very tiny areas and potentially dangerous
Gambling area: everything squashed into tiny area—feels like being in a sardine can
The state made them build it in Springfield instead of Palmer.
They should have walked away....
Mohegan and Foxwoods are a thousand times better.